Yahoo misses profit expectations in what could be its last-ever earnings report

Re:Yahoo misses profit expectations in what could be its las... by danso on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:10PM (#12119307)

There was a consumer product. They performed thousands of blood tests, which were available in Palo Alto and Arizona.

But it's false that companies that don't have a consumer product don't draw intense interest. Ask Enron. Or WorldCom. Or Blackwater. Or Lehman Brothers. Or the folks behind the AOL and Time Warner merger

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Re:Yahoo misses profit expectations in what could be its las... by cloudjacker on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:21PM (#12119347)

You have a point, but it operates under the assumption that there is an interest in disproving a role her gender had in the attention. An assumption I can't empirically prove, nor one you can empirically prove.

I would like to think the blood test product scandal was interesting on its own merits, amongst all of the other frauds going on in this country, but I don't think it really was elevated to the collective conscious because of that.

Holmes represents something inspirational to a marginalized demographic.

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Re:Yahoo misses profit expectations in what could be its las... by mifreewil on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:55AM (#12120452)

> but I don't think it really was elevated to the collective conscious because of that.

It was elevated because of the massive PR push by Theranos itself. I never even heard of Theranos until they did a massive PR push in 2013 or 2014. That, combined with the fact the company is valued at $9 billion, apparently has no actual working product and numerious other interesting facts about the company including it's well-connected-to-Gov (and large) [former?] Board of Directors, co-founder who committed suicide, at least two-large corporate partnerships that blew up (Safeway, Walgreens), etc., etc.

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